Road trip - day 31 - Monday The plan was to go to the beach for the day & soak up the sun!! Funny how things sometimes don't work out!! It was blue skies & sunny & warm when we had breakfast outside, got the beach stuff ready. The plan was to nip to Dinan to Decathlon to get a beach shelter & picnic stuff then head westwards to the beaches we found yesterday. Decathlon proved hard to find, we saw the road sign adverts but ended up miles out of...

Road trip - day 30 - Sunday First thing, caught up with the blog from yesterday - the day had been so busy I hadn't recorded anything! Headed out to the Sunday market at Phelan Le Petit, turned out to be a veg, olive, cheese, fish & egg stall plus the bakers & butchers were open .... everything you would need! Not busy, but there again we weren't out till 11am. Just got croissant & bread from the bakers plus an interesting bag of local Breton 'biscu...

Road trip - day 29 - Saturday Had a good nights sleep, breakfast in the sun on the patio including pain au chocolate & croissant from the bakery opposite. Promise of a beautiful day with blue sky's & temp of over 20c Decided to have a full day out & set out for the Granite Rose Coast (cote de granit Rose) - around 50 miles westwards along the coast. We went along the main road, me driving because we knew St Brieuc has a couple of viaducts that G wo...

Road trip - day 28 - Friday Sadly left behind Wendy, Nigel, Moses et al. Somehow the car is getting easier to pack - but I actually think more stuff is going on the back seat! Blazing sunshine, even early on on the day. Had breakfast outside using the remnants of what we had on the fridge. Left Wendy planting flowers! Had a quick stop in Richelieu, food & provisions market. Had a coffee & mint tea at the Brocante cafe; 9 euros!!! .... And the cups were...

TRAVEL - £219 Eurotunnel - £75 Ferry - £144 GITES - £1170 Bad wildbad - £170 Pontarlier - £250 Bollene - £210 Richelieu - £200 Megrit - £340 OVERNIGHT - £280 Girondelle - £50 Friberg - £70 Montlucon - £70 Portsmouth - £90 £1700